Jonathan Lerner

When Jonathan Lerner's first novel Caught in a Still Place was published, Booklist said, “Lerner breaks the mold. Candid, understated, self-effacing, funny, as stripped down as the emptied world."

Caught in a Still Place describes a dystopian future when a group of people on an obscure Florida island survive a mysterious plague.

Lerner's other books are the novel Alex Underground and the memoir Swords in the Hands of Children. Both deal with his experiences in the radical movement of the Sixties, and the challenges of doing so as a young gay man.

His novel Lily Narcissus, about an American expat family in Asia in the Vietnam War era, will be out from Unsolicited Press in October.

He is also an award-winning journalist focusing on travel, architecture and environment. His work has run in The New York Times, Metropolis, Travel+Leisure, Men's Journal, Modern Maturity and elsewhere, and he is a contributing editor at Landscape Architecture Magazine.

He lives with his husband in New York's Hudson Valley.